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Noun: preciousness
  1. The quality possessed by something with a great price or value
    - costliness, dearness
     
  2. The positive quality of being precious and beyond value
    - invaluableness, pricelessness, valuableness
     
  3. The quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
    - preciosity

Derived forms: preciousnesses

See also: precious

Type of: affectedness, effeteness, expensiveness, unaffordablity, value

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